Marchands en Gros, Fifteenth Century

The last cut is taken from the painted glass at Tournay of the fifteenth century, and represents marchands en gros. This illustration of a warehouse with the merchant and his clerk, and the men and the casks and bales, and the great scales, in full tide of business, is curious and interesting.

Author

The Project Gutenberg eBook, Scenes and Characters of the Middle Ages, by Edward Lewes CuttsPublished in 1911